Les transformations de l'intermédiation musicale. La construction de l'offre commerciale de musique en ligne en france

Construction of the music offer on the Internet is above all a renegotiation of the legal and commercial rules structuring the market. Distribution is organized around a model of intermediation similar to that of records, three aspects of which are particularly controversial: the scope of the catalogues proposed to consumers, the format of the files sold, and the price of a music file. Conflict between the various actors on these three points resulted in the ousting of first-generation start-ups, followed by a compromise between actors in the information technology and record industries, at the expense of traditional distributors. The parallel world of mass home production is still in an embryonic stage. Construction of the music offer on the Internet is above all a renegotiation of the legal and commercial rules structuring the market. Distribution is organized around a model of intermediation similar to that of records, three aspects of which are particularly controversial: the scope of the catalogues proposed to consumers, the format of the files sold, and the price of a music file. Conflict between the various actors on these three points resulted in the ousting of first-generation start-ups, followed by a compromise between actors in the information technology and record industries, at the expense of traditional distributors. The parallel world of mass home production is still in an embryonic stage.